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Tuesday, 16 September 2014

What goes on tour stays on tour

Last weekend I took part in the ancient tradition of the
STAG. You eagle eyed keen readers may have noticed my missing post last Monday,
this was stag related. Needless to say I had neither the mental ability nor the
physical fortitude to hold my concentration for more than 30 seconds. Now that
time has passed and I am back to myself again here it goes.

I woke early on the Saturday morning excited and bowled over
by the shire number of texts and snapchats, all the boys expressing their
excitement. I got changed put on my cowboy shirt and boots, and relaxed. My
beautiful Catherine wrangled me up some breakfast and I was ready to go. I
gathered up enough beer and Morgans to get a small army drunk, crisps and nuts
to level things out. The plan was to meet at Jason’s house (the best man) have
a bite and go on to the pub. Here I had my second breakfast.

I was also handed my amazing stag Polo shirt. He had done an
incredible job. Using the Doctor Who logo and changing the “D” to a “C” he
created the prefect slogan for a stag doo “Catherine Who”. It still cracks me
up. The way I judge it is to consider what I would have done but it surpassed
anything i could have dreamt up (and that is saying something). So with my new
polo and second breakfast in me we headed to the pub.

The recurring theme of showing up early to the pub was
emphasised for the last number of weeks. Everyone was told meet around 10am –
10:30am and the last man in has a forfeit. This is a great idea as it made
everyone put an inch to their step and arrive on time. When we arrived at the
bar “Dainty Davies” we were welcomed with 16 mystery shots. All had different shots
in them but all looked exactly the same. The forfeit for the last man was to
take 4.

There it was pints and shots at 10am. Everyone started to
arrive and the bus came on time. Jason had booked Kellys Bus Hire to take us to
Dublin. Originally we were to take the train however with the Dublin train
strikes we were safe with the bus. The craic was mighty on the bus down. Agie
(aka Kung fu Panda) had made a stag CD of classic 90’s tunes.

After lots of beer, cider, vodka, a mini road trip and a lot
of dehydration stops we made it to Dublin (3 hours later). We checked out our
Staycity penthouse apartment. It was unreal. The view of Dublin we had was
unparallel. The top 2 floors were booked out so we didn’t have to worry about
the noise. After a few more drinks, some slagging and some giggles we went for
dinner in temple bar.

After that in true stag fashion... What goes on tour stays
on tour....

Needless to say I had a fantastic time as did the rest of
the guys. The road home was just as much craic as the say down as we regaled each
other with stories from the night before. I would like to thank all the guys
for making the weekend a blurry memorable one